Listing directorys into an HTML menu?

[Overbleed]

Hello, I'm building a CMS and I'm stuck on this little tiny part of my script.

 

I want to output the names of the templates into an HTML menu... I've tried a bunch of different scripts and opendir() but nothing works, can someone show me how I would do this?

 

The users put their templates in a folder "templates", so its "templates/USERSTEMPLATE/"

 

Thanks.

[OldWest]

Can you post the code you tried so far to generate and populate the list?

[Overbleed]

$ourDir = "../templates";

$ourDirList = @opendir($ourDir);

while ($ourItem = readdir($ourDirList))
{

if (is_dir($ourItem))
{
echo "directory: $ourItem ";
}

if (is_file($ourItem))
{
echo "file: $ourItem";
}
}

closedir($ourDirList);

[OldWest]

What's the output of just:

 

$ourDir = "../templates";

$ourDirList = @opendir($ourDir);

while ($ourItem = readdir($ourDirList))
{

echo $ourItem;

}

[rwwd]

$ourDirList = @opendir($ourDir);

 

Seriously: @ <-- why use the error suppressor, you want to know what's wrong, php only recommend that you use the @ on certain xml functions.

 

Rw

[AbraCadaver]

Yes, don't use @, also turn on error reporting.  Try this:

 

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', '1');

$ourDir = "../templates";

foreach (glob($ourDir) as $ourItem)
{
  if (is_dir($ourItem))
  {
    echo "directory: $ourItem";
  } else {
    echo "file: $ourItem";
  }
}

[Overbleed]

 error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', '1');

$ourDir = "../templates";

echo '<select>';

foreach (glob($ourDir) as $ourItem)
{
  if (is_dir($ourItem))
  {
    echo " <option value='test'>$ourItem</option>";
  }

} 
echo '</select>';?>

 

I get the drop down menu, but the option simply says "../templates", no errors poped up either.

 

I have two templates in the templates folder, under "admin" and "default", and it's showing neither.

[OldWest]

Does it change if you have a slash after: $ourDir = "../templates" like $ourDir = "../templates/"

[Overbleed]

If I put a trailing slash, nothing comes up.

[OldWest]

Would you mind running this script please? What's the output:

 

<?php

$dir    = '../templates';

$files1 = scandir($dir);

print_r($files1);

?>

[Overbleed]

There is no output.

 

Here is my structure, incase it helps.

 

MAIN FOLDER

- admin/

-- _inc/

- modules/

- libs/

- templates/

-- templates/default

-- templates/_admin

index.php

 

Im calling this from my admin _inc folder.

 

[OldWest]

Hmmm.. could be folder permission issues, but you should be using this (as noted by a previous poster):

 

 error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', '1');

 

On all testing you do.. These errors will give you correct insight in your problems. You say no errors are being generated? Are you developing locally or on a hosting server? And it's possible your php.ini might need to be tweaked for directory reading.. Could be a lot simpler than that, but just shooting in the dark right now.

[Overbleed]

I'm developing locally.

[Overbleed]

Oh!

 

I had an error in that code you posted eariler.

 

The output of that is:

 

Array ( [0] => . [1] => .. [2] => _admin [3] => default )

[OldWest]

Oh!

 

I had an error in that code you posted eariler.

 

The output of that is:

 

Array ( [0] => . [1] => .. [2] => _admin [3] => default )

 

That's not an error. Thats array output of the directory! That's good news for you.. The directory is being read.. Now you can 1) either read your directories into an array OR 2) use your original script (just try this to see what happens) and use single quotes for your ourDir var.. see if that changes anything.

[Overbleed]

I know that's the output ;p I ment error as in I had a "\" in there when I hit enter.

 

I tried my original script with single quotes and it didnt change anything.

 

By the way, I'm doing this so the user can add a template to a new folder, I'm not sure if new folders being added will change anything.

[AbraCadaver]

$ourDir = "../../templates";

[OldWest]

AbraCadaver, oh man.. i missed that one! just looked back at his dir structure... hope that solves it.

[Overbleed]

That's the first thing I tried before posting lol. Doesn't make a difference. Nothing shows.

[Overbleed]

Anyone know what to do here?